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The world of schools can be seen as mental institutions with teachers cast (unwillingly perhaps) as therapists. This world is not much different in essence in the United States from schooling in Europe. Certainly the crisis experienced by the teacher caught between a school system determined to process the child as a unit and the parents determined to develop the child (from without) into a product is nearly identical. For in this situation, this same teacher must deal as a human being with the student, another human being, in a way which satisfies the teacher, the parents and the school systems

– Jim Haynes

A Thorny Issue

We can complain

because

the rose bushes

have thorns,

or rejoice because

the thorn bushes

have roses.

– Graffiti found in a women’s toilet.

I repeat myself: Everything is! Everything is itself. It is in itself neight good nor bad. It is your perception of it which gives it value. A rose bush is a rose bush is a rose bush. If you think/feel it is good for you, it follows that you might think it is also good for everyone else, that everyone will think/feel the same as you.